Zhan Ying looked at the contents of the arrival report and fell into deep thought.
After the beginning of spring, the Celestial Legion's offensive intensified. This was expected by him and was not surprising.
What surprised him was that in the last paragraph of the report, the heavenly army seemed to be collecting iron tools from the human world.
This information seems simple, but when you think about it carefully, it is chilling.
Because the Heaven Realm is fighting away from home, no matter how many people come, they bring as many weapons as they can. Among all the catastrophes, only the human world lacks weapons in wars, and the Heaven Realm has never been short of weapons.
It has only been a few months since the Gate of Catastrophe was opened. The two sides only fought one battle near Longmen in the Western Region, and the troops invested by both sides were not large. In the entire battle of Catastrophe, the Battle of Dragon Gate in the Western Region was not that large.
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Heaven did not consume too many war resources because of this.
At the beginning of this catastrophe, it was even more impossible for the Heavenly Legion to lack weapons.
Since there is no shortage of weapons, why do we need to collect human iron weapons?
Zhan Ying thought that Ye Xiaochuan had told him a while ago that Tianjie had begun to develop new weapons in order to win this war.
There were inventions such as cloud ladders specially designed for sieges of cities, and diamond umbrellas specially designed to break arrows in the human world.
King Kong Umbrella Zhanying has it in his hand. It is like an umbrella frame without a rainproof cloth. Even if it is made in large quantities, it will not consume too much iron.
It can be seen that the iron tools collected by Phantom are not used to refine vajra mulberry.
As for crossbows, this possibility is not very high.
The Six-winged Cavalry Regiment in Heaven is equipped with crossbows.
The Celestial Marines, whether they are madmen or giants, or the Skeleton Legion, or the Netherworld Legion, are not suitable for equipping crossbows.
What's more, there are hundreds of thousands of sky fire beasts descending from the heaven this time.
This thing can spray powerful fireballs more than ten or twenty miles away. If it is equipped with crossbows for the Marine Corps, it will not play an effective role at all. As a military wizard, Phantom will not foolishly equip the Marine Corps with crossbows.
Crossbow.
So, what is the purpose of collecting iron tools in Heaven?
Are there other new weapons in heaven that require a lot of iron?
An uneasy feeling came over me.
What Zhan Ying inherited was Li Tielan's military manual. What was recorded in the military manual were all the conventional fighting methods and conventional weapons of the six legions.
Once new weapons appear in the heaven, the military books inherited by Zhan Ying will not be of much use.
Take for example the Vajra Umbrella developed in heaven, which is designed to defeat the rain of arrows in the human world.
The Diamond Umbrella has been placed in Zhan Ying's tent for many days, and Zhan Ying hasn't figured out how to crack it yet.
If new weapons appear in heaven, Zhan Ying feels that future wars on earth will be even more difficult.
Wanyanku shouted several times from the side before waking Zhan Ying out of his deep thoughts.
Wanyanku said worriedly: "Commander, what's wrong with you?"
Zhan Ying shook his head slightly and said, "It's nothing."
Then he called the monks from the Royal Cultivation Academy who had been protecting him closely, and asked them to immediately send a message to His Majesty, and sent out scouts to work carefully. They must find out the real reason why Heaven collects human iron in the shortest possible time.
Now that Ye Xiaochuan is no longer in the world, Zhan Ying always feels that he has no confidence and has become more cautious in dealing with things.
He hasn't felt that he actually relies on Ye Xiaochuan.
If it weren't for Ye Xiaochuan, he would not have been reused by His Majesty.
Without Ye Xiaochuan, he would not have been able to obtain black powder, a new weapon in the world.
Without Ye Xiaochuan, he would still be an unknown centurion in the Beiting Cavalry.
Everything Zhan Ying has now and in the future is actually given to him by Ye Xiaochuan.
Without Ye Xiaochuan sitting in the human world, it would be difficult for Zhan Ying to obtain military supplies or confidential information about the enemy.
A while ago, when Ye Xiaochuan was still in the human world, Zhan Ying dared to send troops to attack the Celestial Army's garrison, and achieved great results. The Celestial Army in the northern Liaoning region only dared to huddle in some big cities.
, dare not come out.
After learning that Ye Xiaochuan left the human world and went to the Sea of ​​Forgetfulness, Zhan Ying's tactics obviously changed a lot.
The commander-in-chief of Shanhaiguan asked him to cooperate in operations in northern Liaoning to contain the power of the Tianjie Army, so as to reduce the pressure on the front battlefield of Shanhaiguan.
But this request was ignored by Zhan Ying. He had been shrinking his troops recently and no longer fought against the heavenly army.
Now I even went to Liaodong to inspect.
The human army operating in the northern Liaoning region is not strong in combat power, but the war heroes are waiting.
In addition to waiting for Ye Xiaochuan to come back, he is also waiting for Ye Xiaochuan's new weapon.
The wizards of Southern Xinjiang secretly sent news that before Ye Xiaochuan left the world, he had entrusted Southern Xinjiang and Tiannv Kingdom to secretly develop new weapons, muskets and artillery powered by black powder.
It is said that these two kinds of black powder weapons are extremely powerful. Once equipped in large numbers in the army, they can greatly enhance the army's combat effectiveness.
Now Zhan Ying learned that Tianjie was collecting iron weapons, which made him even more afraid to act rashly.
As the saying goes, knowing your enemy and knowing yourself will make you safe in a hundred battles. Zhan Ying will not send out large-scale troops until Heaven has developed some new weapon that consumes a lot of iron.
Even if Shanhaiguan was breached and the capital city was breached, he would not send troops.
The battle at Niangzi Pass was a few hours later than at Yumen Pass.
It was almost getting dark when suddenly war drums rumbled outside Niangzi Pass, and the organized Heavenly Legion assembled outside the pass.
The general manager of the march in North Shanxi Province, the commander-in-chief of Niangziguan, and the veteran general Xu Kai.
At this moment, it is above the Niangzi Pass.
Although Xu Kai is nearly seventy years old, he is still in good spirits.
As an old man who has worked hard in the military for decades, he has quite a wealth of combat experience.
Xu Kai knew from the beginning that Niangzi Pass was the key to this catastrophe.
As soon as he received the report from the court that there was a large-scale battle at Yumen Pass today, he guessed that Niangzi Pass would also be attacked by the Celestial Legion in a short period of time.
Immediately climb to the top of the city and observe the movements of the heavenly army.
As a veteran commander, Xu Kai also made many strategic mistakes.
Especially last year, at the beginning of the catastrophe, he made big mistakes in strategy and tactics. He did not withdraw all the troops into the pass like Yumen Pass coach Zhao Zian and Shanhaiguan coach Li Xianjing did.
Xu Kai chose to use the dangerous fortresses in Datong, Taiyuan, Yangquan and other places to block the Celestial Army layer by layer and consume the Celestial Forces.
As a result, the several state capitals outside Yumen Pass and millions of troops were slaughtered by the Celestial Legion within a few days.
Seeing that the situation at Yumen Pass was urgent, Zhao Zian had to mobilize five million elites from Yumen Pass to come to support.
Now Xu Kai is honest and has reduced all 20 million troops to the front line of Yumen Pass, assuming a posture of fighting the enemy to the end.
Xu Kai was old and his eyesight was dim. He stood in the watchtower and squinted at the dust and smoke rising to the north.
He said: "How many troops did the enemy send?"
The deputy general next to him said: "According to the news from the scouts in the sky, the enemy has dispatched about 600,000 troops."
Xu Kai said hoarsely: "Six hundred thousand, which is half the number of enemy troops outside the Pass. The people who come here are evil. Do they want to take over my Yumen Pass in one fell swoop?"
Pass on the commander's military orders, beat the drums, raise the flag, and prepare to meet the enemy 1